Numbers 13:18:4Num.13.18.W4TAB
וְאֶת־הָעָם֙
veethaam
“and the people”
- Transliteration
- ve-et-ha-AM
- Extended
- veh-EET-ha-AHM
- IPA
- /vəʔeːt haˈʕam/
Meaning by language
- English
- and the people
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Tav | t as in top | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Ayin | deep guttural stop, voiced pharyngeal | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ve-et-ha-AM
- clause
ve-et-ha-AM ha-yo-SHEV a-le-HA he-kha-ZAK HU ha-ra-FEH ham-AT HU im-RAV
- sentence
u-re-i-TEM et-ha-A-retz ma-HU ve-et-ha-AM ha-yo-SHEV a-le-HA he-kha-ZAK HU ha-ra-FEH ham-AT HU im-RAV
Exegesis
The direct object marker et {אֶת־ | ʾeṯ} introduces ha’aretz {הָאָ֖רֶץ | hā-ʾā-reṣ} ‘the land,’ followed by the interrogative mah {מַה־ | māh} ‘what’ and the copular pronoun hi {הִ֑וא | hî} ‘it is,’ forming a question about the land’s character.
The conjunction ve’et {וְאֶת־ | wə-ʾeṯ} signals a new object, ha’am {הָעָם֙ | hā-ʿām} ‘the people,’ modified by the participle hayoshev {הַיֹּשֵׁ֣ב | ha-yō-šêḇ} ‘dwelling’ with the locative suffix aleha {עָלֶ֔יהָ | ʿā-lê-hā} ‘on it.’
Root and etymology
ʿ-m-m
“people, nation”
In context — Numbers 13:18
And you shall see the land —what it is—and the people who dwell on it, whether they are strong or weak , few or many.
About this coordinate
Numbers 13:18:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Numbers 13:18, so the Hebrew word וְאֶת־הָעָם֙ (veethaam) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Num.13.18.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Num.13.18.W4.S1) and character.